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Aliun Wali Allah Wajib

BAR MUQASSIRREEN LANAT

what is your favourite number and why?

I have a few, but my #1 (lol) is:

1000000000000066600000000000001

also known as "Belphegors Prime"

man this is the most metal number ever lol. lets look at it:

- the name "Belphegor" is named after a demon from hell (whaaaaat???)
- it is 1, followed by 13 0s (13! that's 13 more people than the number of people who think you are cool!)
- these are followed by 666 (the number of the beast!)
- followed by ANOTHER 13 0s! think of the children!
- followed by 1
- its a palindrome!
- ITS A PRIME NUMBER!

so you have a few infinite numbers like pi, e and i. if you combine them in a certain way by multiplication, these infinite numbers will create a product of -1

personally, i think thats amazing. to take a bunch of infinite, non repeating numbers, and using nothing more than multiplying them together, you make -1. the identity uses many of the basic foundations of maths - multiplication, raised powers, algebra etc. so it could be said to be a condensed version of everything we know about maths. I love it!

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I like 3,7, 1, and 5555. They look and feel pretty. 5555 makes you feel good when you say it in arabic. Whenever I have to repeat myself or say that I've done something already, I tell my parents: "I have done this khemistalaf-khemismieh-u-khemsa-u-khemseen mara!" So now whenever I ask my dad to do something for me and then check if he's done it he says the exact same thing "I've done it 5555 times already!" He's a cool dad.

what I love about infinity is that there is not one infinity...but infinite infinities. and some are "bigger" than others.

for example there are infinite values between 1.1 and 1.2, or 1.11 and 1.12, or 1.0000000000001 and 1.0000000000002 and so on. there are negative infinities. its mindblowing

infinity is less interesting than some REALLY big numbers..

for example, my third favourite number is called "grahams number". this number is so big, that if you were to write it out by writing a single digit of it on every atom in the universe, you would run out of atoms, before you ran out of digits! but its not infinite at all! its just really big!

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what I love about infinity is that there is not one infinity...but infinite infinities. and some are "bigger" than others.

for example there are infinite values between 1.1 and 1.2, or 1.11 and 1.12, or 1.0000000000001 and 1.0000000000002 and so on. there are negative infinities. its mindblowing

infinity is less interesting than some REALLY big numbers..

for example, my third favourite number is called "grahams number". this number is so big, that if you were to write it out by writing a single digit of it on every atom in the universe, you would run out of atoms, before you ran out of digits! but its not infinite at all! its just really big!